{"id":538213,"date":"2022-11-24T10:51:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T05:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=538213"},"modified":"2022-11-24T12:38:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T07:08:42","slug":"indian-railways-shows-slow-progress-in-switch-to-renewables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-railways-shows-slow-progress-in-switch-to-renewables\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways shows slow progress in switch to renewables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways, a sprawling network that ranks among the world\u2019s largest, is a long way from generating the amount of clean energy it needs to become net carbon neutral by 2030, its own stated goal.<\/p>\n<p>The organization had installed renewable capacity of 142 megawatts of rooftop solar and 103.4 megawatts of wind energy as of August, according to a statement dated Oct. 7 and recently uploaded to its website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndian Railways will attempt to reduce its carbon footprint primarily through sourcing of its energy requirements from renewable energy sources,\u201d the statement said. \u201cBy 2029-2030, the expected requirement of installation of renewable capacity would be about 30 gigawatts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways, a sprawling network that ranks among the world\u2019s largest, is a long way from generating the amount of clean energy it needs to become net carbon neutral by 2030, its own stated goal. The organization had installed renewable capacity of 142 megawatts of rooftop solar and 103.4 megawatts of wind energy as of August, according to a statement dated Oct. 7 and recently uploaded to its website. \u201cIndian Railways will attempt to reduce its carbon footprint primarily through sourcing of its energy requirements from renewable energy sources,\u201d the statement said. \u201cBy 2029-2030, the expected requirement of installation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}